Course description
Addiction Counselling Level 3
Our online Addiction Counselling course will help you learn the important addiction counselling skills required to become a counsellor. If you are interested in helping others and enjoy listening, this is the course for you. Become a self employed addiction counsellor on completion of this course, as you will be able to gain insurance and open your own business.
Addiction affects thousands of people and comes in all shapes and sizes. Yet despite this obvious growing need for help, there is sadly a national shortage of therapists capable of helping people to overcome their addictive behaviours.
Fortunately our Addiction Counselling Level 3 course, can lend you the tools, the knowledge and the insight so you can successfully lend your support to those dealing with gambling, alcohol, drug, shopping as well as numerous other addictions, so they can receive the professional help they need.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
No prior knowledge or experience is required, making this course a fantastic asset to those looking to take their first steps into counselling or whom solely want to specialise in addiction.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive certification from National Institution of Qualifications (NIOQ) and a Learner Unit Summary (which details of all the units you have completed).
This course has been designed to meet the requirements of specific learners or employers. It is endorsed by National Institution of Qualifications, meaning the course has undergone external quality checks to ensure that they are maintained and delivered to an excellent standard.
National Institution of Qualifications are a national certificating organisation. Endorsement of our courses ensures learners have access to high quality materials that cover all learning outcomes, helping them to achieve their potential.
Course Benefits
During this course, you will:
- Learn how to combat workplace challenges and assess addictions on a patient by patient basis (by developing your knowledge, understanding and skills).
- Expand your level of counselling specialisms and approaches, so you can assist numerous types of addictions.
- Be able to raise counselling standards and reduce the shortage of counsellors.
Training Course Content
- Unit 1: Introduction to Counselling – covers core skills and competencies of counselling; the aims and objectives of counselling; key theoretical principles, and the scope of counselling.
- Unit 2: Approaches and Models of Helping – establishing and maintaining counselling relationships; importance of relationship boundaries in addiction counselling; ethical principles and how to apply them.
- Unit 3: Post Traumatic Stress Counselling – theoretical principles of each approach; specialist skills required, and key similarities and differences between approaches.
- Unit 4: Understanding Addiction – the physiology, psychology and predisposition of addiction, and the processes of relapse.
- Unit 5: Types of Addiction – substance and alcohol addiction; common features of addiction; adapting approaches to different types of addiction, and the challenges of each addiction (including impact on social, family etc.).
- Unit 6: Client and Support Issues in Addiction Counselling – challenges of co-occurring diagnoses; how stereotyping and labelling affects counselling processes; challenges of denial and ambivalence; social and family support systems, and how they affect recovery.
Course delivery details
For online based courses, you will study your course and submit work online. Paper based courses are the same as online, but with additional printed study packs sent to you.
Become a self employed counsellor on completion of this course, as you will be able to gain insurance and open your own business!
- FREE Business Start Up Course worth £95 included.
Whether you are an existing counsellor looking to broaden your specialisms or are simply interested in exploring a role within this field; our online course can help you to broaden your skillset and make a massive difference to the lives of those with addiction.
Every element of our course is designed to teach you about the different types and causes of addiction, as well as provide you with the knowledge to offer appropriate therapy and support.
This means, by the end of this 6 unit course you can feel confident in your ability to aid those with addiction as you’ll have a thorough understanding of counselling and its key principles, and will be able to adapt your counselling to suit the addiction each individual is dealing with.
All that we ask is that you complete this 100 hour course within 12 months of your registration. Otherwise, you are welcome to do it at your own pace, in your own time and manage it around your existing work commitments.
All of our courses are designed with flexibility in mind, so you can easily work to your own deadlines without pressure.
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